Question

What happens at a party convention? How are convention delegates chosen for each party?

Answer 1

National party convention the meeting held once every 4 years by each of the major and some minor parties to select their presidential and vice-presidential candidates and write a party platform.The purposes of conventions is nominating candidates for political office, solidifies the platform, and vote on rules for the operation of the party.

The Party Convention commonly used for a Media event to promote the parties candidates. And party convention become less important When front-running candidates win enough votes in the primaries to ensure their victory at the convention.

Delegates are men and women chosen in each state, the District of Columbia, and a number of overseas locations to vote at the Democratic and Republican national conventions. Delegates for the national convention chosen In primaries and nominating conventions.

Most delegates are grassroots party activists who campaign to represent their congressional district or their state at large. But both parties also set aside a certain number of delegate slots for "party insiders."

On the GOP side, these are each state’s party chair and two Republican National Committee members. The committee members — 112 in all — also make the rules that govern the national convention. (More on this later).   

Under the Democratic Party’s system, about one-sixth of the delegates are party officials and big shots: members of the DNC, all the Democrats in Congress, all Democratic governors, and distinguished party leaders (such as all former and current presidents and vice presidents). Unlike the Republican party leaders, these 700 or so Democratic superdelegates aren’t bound to primary results and can vote for whomever they wish.